Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey
Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress
and humanitarian. Hepburn was ranked as the third greatest female screen
legend in the history of American cinema and a place in the International
Best Dressed List Hall of Fame. Born in Ixelles, a district of Brussels,
Hepburn spent her childhood between Belgium, England and the Netherlands,
including German-occupied Arnhem during the Second World War, where she studied
ballet with Sonia Gaskell in Amsterdam before moving to London in 1948 to
continue ballet training with Marie Rambert and perform as a chorus girl in
West End musical theatre productions. Pia sent me this card.After appearing in several British films and starring in
the 1951 Broadway play Gigi, Hepburn played the Academy
Award-winning lead role in Roman Holiday (1953). Later performing
in successful films like Sabrina (1954), The Nun's Story
(1959), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Charade
(1963), My Fair Lady (1964) and Wait Until Dark
(1967), Hepburn received Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations and
accrued a Tony Award for her theatrical performance in the 1954 Broadway play Ondine.
Hepburn remains one of few people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and
Tony Awards. One film of note was Robin
and Marian (1976), with Sean Connery in 1976. In 1988, Audrey became a
special ambassador to the United Nations UNICEF fund helping children in Latin
America and Africa, a position she retained until 1993. She was named to People's
magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world. Her last film
was Always (1989) in 1989. She had made a total of 31 high quality movies.
Her elegance and style will always be remembered in film history as evidenced
by her being named in Empire magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All
Time."

She appeared in fewer films as her life went on, devoting
much of her later life to UNICEF. Although contributing to the organisation
since 1954, she worked in some of the most profoundly disadvantaged communities
of Africa, South America and Asia between 1988 and 1992. She was awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work as a UNICEF Goodwill
Ambassador in late 1992, but a month later, aged 63, Hepburn died of
appendiceal cancer at her home in Switzerland in early 1993.

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Hi, I am Vijay Kapre. Its nice collecting picture postcards. They tell you so much about the people and places around us. Happy Viewing. Those who want to contact me my email address is kaprevijay@gmail.com.